leniter

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From lēnis (“soft, smooth”) +‎ -ter (adverb-forming suffix).

Adverb[edit]

lēniter (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)

  1. softly, gently

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References[edit]

  • “leniter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “leniter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • leniter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)
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